Writing Quotes

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

A mixtape is for the street, it's something you without necessarily thinking about it, because you have to stay in the game. It's like writing an e-mail saying hello to your friends.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I feel like I'm still doing something constructive.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it. It's not really an effort. It's how I write songs.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.

Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.

I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

On a good day I write, all day.

I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?